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Selects: How The Pill Changed the World

07 Dec 2024

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When the birth control pill hit the market in 1960 it landed like a social bomb. Almost overnight, women gained the ability to separate sex from pregnancy and everything from feminism to patients’ rights centered on it. Find out all about its history in this classic episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You're listening to an iHeart Podcast. Are there any pictures of you online? Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

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10.994 - 27.883 Dexter Thomas

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts. I'm Dexter Thomas, host of Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now. Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

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28.063 - 35.849 Unknown Speaker

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

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35.989 - 44.516 Dexter Thomas

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.

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44.616 - 50.101 Unknown Speaker

Listen to Kill Switch on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

51.519 - 54.02 Daniel

We love learning about this extraordinary universe.

54.1 - 55.741 Kelly Wienersmith

And we love sharing what we've learned.

55.821 - 60.244 Daniel

And on our podcast, Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe, that's what we're going to do.

60.384 - 64.786 Kelly Wienersmith

I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist, and I think our universe is absolutely extraordinary.

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